RODEO's 38 spl. 4 5/8

[Dakota Mac]

Howdy Pards, I'm new on this prairie. What brought me here was the purchase of a 50th Anniversary RUGER 44 MAG FLATTOP SINGLE ACTION. Figured I needed one since the 44 Magnum and me had our Birthdays the same year. I'm still huntin a S&W Mod. 29 50th Ann. Edition same reason. Gotta get it by the chairman of the board right? Just said hey Darling guess what I'm gettin fer my Birthday? So anyway then I needed to find me a western rig to rest this baby in. I had a Ruger 22 MAG way back with a nice tooled gunfighter rig and the ruger had a 91/2 inch barrel. I had missed that set up since I sold it. Cheap and a blast to shoot. So one thing led to another and I run across the SASS site while scoping for holsters. Thought to myself by golly this would be one heck of a good reason to have to buy 4 more shootin irons, SHOOT! So as the story moves along I got holt to a consecutive numbered set-o-RODEO's fer a fair price. I talked to the man at USFA about gettin these guns slicked up and he told me that they had discontinued the slick jobs for the RODEO's because ther weren't no call fer it.
            So my first question on this USFA owners forum is. Do these guns need any slicking up? And if so what is available to the user as far as procedures or might I say the blueprinting of my irons for the most reliability and performance enhancment hot rodding techniques. And by the way I told the Chairlady that I was selling the RUGER so anybody interested I'm asking $450.00 + shipping NIB never fired.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Dakota Mac

[Dakota Mac]

 

Howdy Pards, I'm new on this prairie. What brought me here was the purchase of a 50th Anniversary RUGER 44 MAG FLATTOP SINGLE ACTION. Figured I needed one since the 44 Magnum and me had our Birthdays the same year. I'm still huntin a S&W Mod. 29 50th Ann. Edition same reason. Gotta get it by the chairman of the board right? Just said hey Darling guess what I'm gettin fer my Birthday? So anyway then I needed to find me a western rig to rest this baby in. I had a Ruger 22 MAG way back with a nice tooled gunfighter rig and the ruger had a 91/2 inch barrel. I had missed that set up since I sold it. Cheap and a blast to shoot. So one thing led to another and I run across the SASS site while scoping for holsters. Thought to myself by golly this would be one heck of a good reason to have to buy 4 more shootin irons, SHOOT! So as the story moves along I got holt to a consecutive numbered set-o-RODEO's fer a fair price. I talked to the man at USFA about gettin these guns slicked up and he told me that they had discontinued the slick jobs for the RODEO's because ther weren't no call fer it.
            So my first question on this USFA owners forum is. Do these guns need any slicking up? And if so what is available to the user as far as procedures or might I say the blueprinting of my irons for the most reliability and performance enhancment hot rodding techniques. And by the way I told the Chairlady that I was selling the RUGER so anybody interested I'm asking $450.00 + shipping NIB never fired.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Dakota Mac

[Camille Eonich]

You are really the only one that could know if the guns need feel as like you want them to.  Do you like the trigger pull?  What about the hammer?  Is it light enough for you or is it maybe too light?  Is the action nice a smooth?  Are the guns in time?

It's really a matter of personal preference.

On the Ruger that you have for sale.  You should put it in the classified section.  You should get more visibility there.

[Stump Water]

Hey Mac (I feel like I'm in a B-gangster movie  ),

CE is right, it's all personal preference.  The best place I can think of to find out what you prefer, before doing anything to your guns, is a CAS match.

Once ya make it known where you stand (got guns... interested in action work), you'll have cowpokes all over ya wantin' ya to, "Feel this pistol. It's had this-n-that and all that done to it by Whoziwhat the Genious Gunsmith...", and so forth.

And remember to keep your ears tuned while your droolin' over some of the action work, 'cause you'll also hear useful tidbits like, "I sent these pistols to Thumbs McKnucklehead first.  He messed 'em up so bad that Whoziwhat almost couldn't fix 'em."

[Driftwood Johnson]

I'm still huntin a S&W Mod. 29 50th Ann. Edition

Howdy

You know, there are plenty of nice old Model 29s floating around that will not cost as much as that brand new one, will not have the lock on them, will have the firing pin on the hammer where it belongs, and will not have any MIM parts in them. Just food for thought. I have a pile of S&W revolvers, but I haven't bought a new one since around 1975 or so. I think the old ones are much better. Just food for thought.